Any chance Noobs have is being wiped away by vets using the same planes and tactics against noobs. Good sticks in the easy mode "noob" planes, don't give noobs in easy mode noob planes a chance because their plane isn't any more capable than a vets plane but the vet knows exactly what to do in the more capable plane to defeat the noob.
A noob does finally get a kill, and now they show on the kill messages with their dot on the map to easily identify and go after, leaving them even less of a chance since they don't know whose coming after them.
I think a lot of you aren't getting it.
How is it fair for a player who just got a kill to have their position completely given away, while the enemy going after them gets full mask to be unidentified? Thus allowing them to set up an attack against the person who just got a kill?
If I know Lazer is in a P38 after he just got a kill. I'm now going to manipulate my tactics to prepare to fight Lazer in a way that gives me an advantage, where as he has no clue it's me to be able to set up advantage for himself, or atleast be aware to fly more aggressively.
Does that make sense?
It seems to me that you've went from understanding this is a combat sim based on ACM to treating it like Call of Duty or some other addict-enabling video game.
Knowing an opponent's position BEFORE engagement is the lowest tier of concern in terms of a WWII, guns-only combat environment and one that has the lowest effects in terms of outcome.
At some point, your hypothetical noobs need to employ ACM. This is, after all, a pseudo-sim based on emulated physics. If you're losing simply because someone knows where you are, then you're just a bad pilot, all things being equal.
Case in point, today GEN went on a 20-minute, explitive-laden rant because he lost a turnfight to a lower TA 152 while flying his dumb Spit 9. He called me a "fkn hack" that "floats a weightless aircraft." It never occurred to the tard that something called "maneuvers" exist nor has he ever read Shaw's book. You can't fix this kind of stupid nor can you account for it.